A simple way of creating new things is to bump two existing things
together. In fact a very large number of inventions and ideas are
generated this way. Sometimes the new idea will be a combination of the
two and sometimes the bumping-together sparks a completely differentthought.

Quotes

‘If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since
known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly
introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.’

‘‘Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they
did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they
just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they
were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the
reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences than
other people.’

‘It is the power of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts,
or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be
able to combine them into some new forms--the power to connect the seemingly
unconnected.’

‘Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome
in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it;
perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally
absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.’